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Fugly Bali

Fugly Bali is a web site where you can report bad deeds (fraud, police corruption, unethical behavior, etc.) and they will publish it online for you and notify the Bali Tourism Authority of what you have said (not that the tourism authority will do anything of course). So if a police officer makes you pay a "fine without receipt" while you are holiday in Bali, Fugly Bali is the perfect place to let the world know and make it more difficult for Bali's mafia police to afflict others (although please also follow the corruption complaint procedure outlined on our Bali Police page).

You are of course welcome to post messages about police corruption in Bali which affects / affected tourists / tourism on BLTF's own forum but posts are only maintained for 12 months before they get replaced by the following years messages, Fugly Bali keep their reports / posts up permanently.

Fugly Bali's Web Site

If you have experienced major fraud or corruption, please visit Bali BS.

BLTF / Fugly Bali facts;

1) BLTF never used to link to Fugly Bali because they never asked us to and because BLTF does not agree with everything Fugly Bali says or does.

2) However, in October 2005 Jack Daniels of PT Bali Discovery Tours in Sanur filed yet another police complaint against BLTF's owner, Mark Austin claiming he owns Fugly Bali and has libeled the police and himself on that site. Jack Daniels has a history of filing false and malicious police complaints using the much abused Indonesian code for criminal libel, see Mark's actual warning site Bali Discovery. Mr. Daniels latest complaint was made yet again with a well known and well documented corrupt police officer, Tri Kuncoro. As well as colluding with Mr. Daniels the Balinese police know they are acting unlawfully against Mark Austin because whoever owns Fugly Bali is outside Indonesian jurisdiction anyway (Fugly Bali is a web site authored outside Indonesia, in the English language and using North American web servers - so none of the requirements for claiming jurisdiction are met). So even if Fugly Bali was Mark Austin's site it is none of the Balinese police's legal business. Of course that does not stop such a corrupt and nasty police department from acting unlawfully at the bequest of their colluding "friend" at Bali Discovery Tours; it is rumored such follow-up complaints cost Jack Daniels US$500 a time while the original complaint cost him US$3000.

3) BLTF's owner, Mark Austin, does not own Fugly Bali. Anyone that has a brain larger than their agenda will see by reference to this site and Mark's Bali Discovery site that he is quite open about what he owns and writes and has no reason personally to say he does not own something when he actually does. What is the point of Mark calling police in Bali corrupt here on BLTF and on his warning site yet denying he is calling the police corrupt elsewhere? Corrupt Balinese police officers have made it clear they do not like Mark Austin for calling them exactly what they are, corrupt mafia police officers, and have even issued an unlawful and un-jurisdictional summons against him for libeling Jack Daniels and themselves which cites the death penalty; this predates Fugly Bali. So why would Mark Austin say he is not the owner of Fugly Bali if he really is? What more are the Balinese police going to do to Mark if he did own Fugly Bali, execute him twice?

4) After the corrupt Balinese police, despite there being no evidence and their having no jurisdiction anyway, accepted Jack Daniels / PT Bali Discovery Tours October 2005 complaint that Mark Austin is the owner of Fugly Bali and had somehow libeled them yet again by calling them corrupt, BLTF now links to Fugly Bali with the greatest of pleasure.